Making Maps with MapsEngine and Leaflet.js – What is Islandora? – Doris McCarthy, 1910-2010

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Introduction to Islandora& the Doris McCarthy fonds

This presentation: http://is.gd/islandora

Sara Allain / @archivalisticKim Pham / @tolloidDigital Scholarship Unit, UTSC Library / @digitalutsc

What is Islandora?

  • Digital asset management system
  • Supports large, searchable collections of all kinds
  • Database is relational

Why Islandora?

  • Free and open source
  • Modular and extensible
  • Strong preservation function

Doris McCarthy, 1910-2010

  • Born in Calgary, AB and grew up in the Toronto Beaches
  • Met Marjorie Beer, her lifelong best friend, in 1920
  • Graduated from the Ontario College of Art (1930)
  • Supported herself as a practicing artist by teaching at Toronto's Central Technical School (1932-1972)
  • First woman president of the Ontario Society of Artists (1964-1967)
  • Travelled widely for artistic inspiration, notably to the southeast coast of Quebec and the Canadian north
  • Graduated from University of Toronto Scarborough with a BA in English in 1989

The Doris McCarthy fonds

Archival finding aid

  • Donated to UTSC by Doris' estate, along with 213 artworks
  • 9+ meters of textual records
  • 15,000+ photographs, negatives, and slides

The fonds includes:

  • Artifacts from Doris' life as an artist
  • Architectural drawings for her home, Fool's Paradise (now an Ontario Heritage Trust artists' retreat)
  • Both sides of a decades-long correspondence between Doris and Marjorie Beer (1920-1974)
  • Diaries written between the ages of 12 and 90
  • Drafts of her autobiographical publications
  • Donated with the intention that the material would be made available online

The digitized collection

UTSC's Islandora repository

  • 2000+ scanned images or photographs
  • Over 30 gigabytes of data
  • Scanned and described in-house by employees with deep subject knowledge
  • Further digitization planned for this summer

Islandora Sandbox

sandbox.islandora.ca

  • Find an image of anything online (Google Image Search)
  • Log in using the given name and password
  • Click on "Islandora Repository" in the left Navigation menu
  • Click on "Large Image Collection"
  • Click on "Manage", then "Add an object to this collection"
  • Create metadata using the form and upload your object